Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering: Recent submissions

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    • STEP, XML, and UML: Complementary Technologies1 

      Russell S. Peak; ASME Mem.; Joshua Lubell; Vijay Srinivasan; ASME Mem.; Stephen C. Waterbury (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)
      One important aspect of product lifecycle management (PLM) is the computer-sensible representation of product information. Over the past 15 years or so, several languages and technologies have ...

    • From Engineering Information Management (EIM) to Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) 

      Susan D. Urban; Ravi Rangan; Guest Editors (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)
      This Special Issue is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Robert Fulton, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech and the founder of the Engineering Information Management Committee of ...

    • A Data Mining Approach to Forming Generic Bills of Materials in Support of Variant Design Activities 

      Carol J. Romanowski; Rakesh Nagi (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)
      In variant design, the proliferation of bills of materials makes it difficult for designers to find previous designs that would aid in completing a new design task. This research presents a ...

    • A New ISO 10303 (STEP) Resource for Modeling Parameterization and Constraints 

      Michael J. Pratt (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)
      ISO 10303 (STEP) is a standard for the electronic exchange of product life-cycle data. It has been continually expanded by the addition of new capabilities since its first release by ISO in ...

    • Reconstruction of Virtual Parts from Unorganized Scanned Data for Automated Dimensional Inspection 

      Chuan-Chu Kuo; Hong-Tzong Yau; Corresponding author (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2003)
      In the framework of Virtual CMM [1], virtual parts are proposed to be constructed as triangulated surface models. This paper presents a novel surface reconstruction method to the creation of ...

    • Statistical Modelling of Nominal and Measured Mechanical Surfaces 

      Paolo Chiabert; Mario Costa (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2003)
      Modern manufacturing processes require unambiguous description of product morphology. In spite of numerous successes in the development of new mathematical tools, there not exists a method providing ...

    • Towards a Digital Functional Assistance Process for Tolerancing 

      Harald Toulorge; Alain Riviere; Alain Bellacicco; Réda Sellakh (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2003)
      This paper describes with precision the steps adopted for the development of a digital functional assistance process for tolerancing, developed in collaboration with the RENAULT automobile group. ...

    • Computer Modeling of Geometric Variations in Mechanical Parts and Assemblies 

      Yanyan Wu; Jami J. Shah; Joseph K. Davidson (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2003)
      This paper reports on part of a project related to the development of a computer model for GD&T (Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing) to support tolerance specification, validation and ...

    • Computer Aided Tolerancing Using Positioning Features 

      Bernard Anselmetti; Kwamivi Mawussi (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2003)
      The quality of the interfaces between parts ensures the assembly requirements of a mechanism and the right positioning of functional surfaces. When defining a mechanism, a designer analyzes the ...

    • A Survey of Mathematical Methods for the Construction of Geometric Tolerance Zones 

      T. M. Kethara Pasupathy; Edward P. Morse; Robert G. Wilhelm (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2003)
      The physical realization of any part always yields imperfect forms with respect to the ideal geometry specified in the engineering design. To describe and preserve functional requirements of ...

    • Minimum-Zone Form Tolerance Evaluation Using Rigid-Body Coordinate Transformation 

      Dawit H. Endrias; Hsi-Yung Feng (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2003)
      This paper presents an optimization approach for the accurate evaluation of minimum-zone form tolerances from discrete coordinate measurement data. The approach minimizes the minimum-deviation ...

    • 3D Transfer of Tolerances Using a SDT Approach: Application to Turning Process 

      Frédéric Vignat; François Villeneuve (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2003)
      The following paper aims to apply the concept of the small displacements torsor (SDT) in order to predict the defects of a part resulting in successive machining set-up. The proposition is ...

    • Applications of the GapSpace Model for Multidimensional Mechanical Assemblies 

      Zhihua Zou; Edward P. Morse (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2003)
      The most fundamental, and perhaps most important, task in the tolerance analysis of assemblies is to test whether or not the components with tolerances are actually able to fit together (called ...

    • Tolerance Analysis with eM-TolMate 

      Francesco Chiesi; Lapo Governi (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2003)
      This article presents a review of a commercial computer-aided tolerance analysis tool, eM-TolMate, which is embedded in four major CAD systems (Catia [1], UG [2], Pro/E [3], SDRC [4]). eM-TolMate ...

    • Improved Display Methods of Single-valued Functions of Two Variables 

      P. A. Simionescu (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2003)
      Based on the depth-sorting hidden-line removal algorithm, new methods of producing silhouette and raised level-curve diagrams with the hidden-lines removed of single-valued functions of two variables ...

    • Assessing the Impact of Graphical Design Interfaces on Design Efficiency and Effectiveness 

      Christopher Ligetti; Graduate Research Assistant; Timothy W. Simpson; Member ASME; Mary Frecker; Member ASME; Russell R. Barton; Gary Stump; Graduate Research Assistant (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2003)
      Despite the apparent advantages of and recent advances in the use of visualization in engineering design and optimization, we have found little evidence in the engineering literature that assesses ...

    • An Efficient Geometric Algorithm For Extracting Structural Elements to Facilitate Automated MEMS Extraction 

      S. Bellam; S. K. Gupta (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2003)
      Micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) are very small devices that contain both mechanical and electrical elements with sizes in the order of microns. Design cycle time is an important consideration ...

    • Special Issue on Computing Technologies to Support Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing (GD&T) 

      Alain Desrochers; Guest Editor for GD&T Special Issue; C.-H. Menq; Guest Editor for GD&T Special Issue; Bob Wilhelm; Guest Editor for GD&T Special Issue (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2003)

    • Tolerance Analysis with EDS/VisVSA 

      Zhengshu Shen (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2003)
      This paper presents a brief review of a leading commercial computer-aided tolerance (CAT) analysis system, VisVSA, which is available from EDS/Unigraphics. VisVSA facilitates statistical analysis ...

    • Application of a Unified Jacobian—Torsor Model for Tolerance Analysis 

      Alain Desrochers; Walid Ghie; Luc Laperrière (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2003)
      Because of uncertainties in manufacturing processes, a mechanical part always shows variations in its geometrical characteristics (ex. form, dimension, orientation and position). Quality then often ...